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In an effort to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, renewable energy policies incentivize use of forest biomass as an energy source. Many governments have assumed (legislated) the carbon flux from burning biomass to be neutral because biomass growth sequesters CO2.…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, air quality, biomass, carbon dioxide, biogeochemical cycles, climate change, energy, fire management, forest management, bioenergy, climate change, forestry, life cycle analysis, discounting
Wildfire activity is predicted to increase with global climate change, resulting in longer fire seasons and larger areas burned. The emissions from fires are highly variable owing to differences in fuel, burning conditions and other external environmental factors. The smoke that…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Safety, Weather
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, Australia, Victoria, Canada, British Columbia, Indonesia, Asia, Singapore, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, health factors, hydrocarbons, Hg - mercury, ozone, particulates, fire management, smoke management, boreal forests, peatlands, savannas, tropical forests, Climate Effects on Emissions, forest fires, health impacts, Hg - mercury, particulate matter, smoke production
From the text ... 'Smoke can be transported hundreds of miles downwind by prevailing winds or convective winds generated by fires themselves with concentrations sufficient to make it the most significant source of air pollution over large areas.'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, climate change, pollution, fire management, smoke management
Persistent high pressure conditions over the European part of Russia during summer 2010 were responsible for an extended period of hot and dry weather, creating favourable conditions for severe wildfires. The chemical transport model SILAM is used to simulate the dispersion of…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire intensity, wildfires, Europe, Russia, aerosols, fire management, forest management, smoke management, SILAM, MACC Reanalysis, HARMONIE, wildfire, Aerosol Direct Radiative Effect
A total number of 20,212 fire hot spots were recorded by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite instrument over Greece during the period 2002-2013. The Fire Radiative Power (FRP) of these events ranged from 10 up to 6000 MW at 1 km resolution, and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, particulates, remote sensing, Europe, Greece, fire management, smoke management, fire smoke, injection height, Smoke Dispersion Modeling, Firehub
Fully-coupled air-quality models running in 'feedback' and 'no-feedback' configurations were compared against each other and observation network data as part of Phase 2 of the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative. In the 'no-feedback' mode, interactions between…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, aerosols, air quality, pollution, Europe, smoke management, feedbacks, air pollution modelling, weather prediction, direct effect, indirect effect, coupled modelling systems, forecasting
This study reviews the top ranked meteorology and chemistry interactions in online coupled models recommended by an experts' survey conducted in COST Action EuMetChem and examines the sensitivity of those interactions during two pollution episodes: the Russian forest fires 25…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Climate
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, dust, particulates, pollution, Europe, fire management, smoke management, aerosol direct effects, feedback, PM10, fire and dust
As a contribution to phase2 of the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII), eight different simulations for the year 2010 were performed with WRF-Chem for the European domain. The four simulations using RADM2 gas-phase chemistry and the MADE/SORGAM aerosol…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Climate
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, pollution, Europe, fire management, smoke management, WRF-Chem, online coupled model, direct aerosol effect, indirect effect, aerosol-meteorology feedback, RADM2, AQMEII-2
Fires impact atmospheric composition through their emissions, which range from long-lived gases to short-lived gases and aerosols. Effects are typically larger in the tropics and boreal regions but can also be substantial in highly populated areas in the northern mid-latitudes.…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfires, fires, biomass burning, CO - carbon monoxide, O3 - ozone, aerosols, radiative forcing, injection height
Lightning causes one third of the 9000 wildfires that occur in Canada. Annually, these lightning-caused fires account for 90% of the area burned and cost Canadians at least 150 million dollars in suppression costs and values destroyed. Unlike the fires caused by human negligence…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Weather, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., Acer, Betula, boreal forests, Canada, computer programs, duff, fine fuels, fire control, fire management, fire suppression, firebrands, flammability, fuel loading, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, hardwood forests, humidity, ignition, lightning, lightning caused fires, lightning effects, litter, moisture, physics, Picea, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, pine, Pinus strobus, Populus tremuloides, precipitation, rate of spread, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, storms, temperature, wildfires, wind, woody fuels
A climatic gradient across Northwestern Ontario induces a spatial gradient in fire incidence, with few fires in the Northeastern part and many in the Southwestern part. The resultant landscape mosaics exhibit maximum landscape (beta) diversity with intermediate disturbance…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: Abies balsamea, aesthetics, age classes, boreal forests, Canada, CO2 - carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, climate change, human caused fires, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, mosaic, national parks, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Picea glauca, Pinus banksiana, plant communities, Populus tremuloides, prescribed fires (chance ignition), statistical analysis, temperate forests, trees, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
The western national parks managed by the Canadian Parks Service (CPS) are dominated by fire dependent forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and trembling aspen. Values at risk and high-intensity fire regimes limit the acceptability of unscheduled (lightning and unplanned man)…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerial ignition, age classes, Canada, coniferous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, flame length, fuel types, headfires, human caused fires, ignition, lightning, lightning caused fires, mortality, national parks, Picea, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus glabra, Populus tremuloides, prescribed fires (chance ignition)
Model calculations, constrained by satellite observations, indicate that most of the smoke from the oil fires in Kuwait will remain in the lowest few kilometres of the troposhere. Beneath the plume there is a severe reduction in daylight, and a day-time temperature drop of 10…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, air temperature, Asia, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, disturbance, environmental impact analysis, Kuwait, Middle East, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, pH, precipitation, seasonal activities, smoke effects, S - sulfur, temperature
The response of the global climate system to smoke from burning oil wells in Kuwait is investigated in a series of numerical experiments using a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model with an interactive soot transport model and extended radiation scheme. The results…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, air temperature, ENSO, heat, India, Kuwait, Middle East, particulates, precipitation, radiation, season of fire, soot, statistical analysis, temperature
In 1985, Yosemite began using a geographic information system for fire management and research. The system has been used to compare historic fire incidence over a range of topography and vegetation types. Parkwide fuel inventories and prescribed burn units have also been…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: BEHAVE, fire management, GIS - geographic information system, Yosemite National Park, research, Abies magnifica, chaparral, climatology, computer program, coniferous forests, fire frequency, fire growth, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel inventory, fuel moisture, lightning, lightning caused fires, moisture, national parks, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pinus contorta, lodgepole pine, radiation, rate of spread, statistical analysis, subalpine forests, temperature, topography, vegetation surveys, wind
n this chapter we describe the results of airborne studies of smokes from 17 biomass fuel fires, including 14 prescribed fires and 3 wildfires, burned primarily in the temperate zone of North America between 34° and 49°N latitude. The prescribed fires were in forested lands…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: North America, trace gases, smoke particulates, biomass fires
Emissions of trace gases and particulate matter from burning of biomass are generally factored into global climate models. Models for improving the estimates of the global annual release of emissions from biomass fires are presented. Estimates of total biomass consumed on a…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, atmospheric chemistry
The present volume discusses the biomass burning (BMB) studies of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project, GEO satellite estimation of Amazonian BMB, remote sensing of BMB in West Africa with NOAA-AVHRR, an orbital view of the great Chinese fire of 1987, BMB's…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: air pollution, deforestation, global warming, ozone, forest fires, global, atmospheric chemistry, fuel combustion
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: forest health, climate change, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team
Changes in the current fire regime would directly affect carbon cycling, land–atmosphere exchanges, and atmospheric composition, and could therefore modulate the ongoing climate warming. We used a coupled climate–carbon model to quantify the effect of major changes in non-…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire regimes, CO2 - carbon dioxide, atmospheric dynamics, fire frequency, air quality, albedo, C - carbon, climate change, remote sensing, temperature, fire management, forest management
Wildfire activity is predicted to increase with global climate change, resulting in longer fire seasons and larger areas burned. The emissions from fires are highly variable owing to differences in fuel, burning conditions and other external environmental factors. The smoke that…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: forest fire, health impacts, Hg - mercury, PM - particulate matter, smoke production
'Megafire' events, in which large high-intensity fires propagate over extended periods, can cause both immense damage to the local environment and catastrophic air quality impacts on cities and towns downwind. Increases in extreme events associated with climate change (e.g.,…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire potential, megafires
Most of climate change is understood in terms of global-scale warming caused by carbon dioxide released from anthropogenic combustion of fossil fuels. Climate models predict slow but steady warming over the next five to ten decades. Developing fire and smoke management…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire management, smoke management, climate change, arctic warming
The Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program (FFS) of the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station focuses on fundamental and applied research in wildland fire, from fire physics and fire ecology to fuels management and smoke emissions. Located at the Missoula Fire…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, fuel dynamics, wildland fire, climate change, research, fuel management, research accomplishment report, fire physics
The balance between ecosystem emissions of carbon to the atmosphere and removals from the atmosphere indicates whether ecosystems are exacerbating or reducing climate change. Forest ecosystems in the State of California, USA, contain carbon that reaches the highest densities (…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): California
Keywords: aboveground biomass, fire suppression, forest ecosystems, FIA - Forest Inventory and Analysis, LANDFIRE, remote sensing, fuel accumulation, wildfire, urban areas, aboveground live carbon, California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, agricultural areas